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From the benthy bottom

• "A Sponge for Philip Guston's Tears" appeared in ergot. on 6 December 2024.
• All broadcast recordings for this fall's season of Horrorshow are compiled in the radio section, excepting a dismal, double-booked Halloween special; during interim broadcasting in January, Horrorshow will air Tuesdays at 1700EST.

broadcast recordings

...of horrorshow—which airs Wednesdays at 2200EST, through to about the end of the year—are available under radio.

Pianoskin boots

• . . . is a short work out in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 48, which is a dream house for any story, and particularly this one!
  
  You can pick up the single issue from Small Beer, or take out a subscription—if you do, I unreservedly recommend Chocolate City!

dead air

• Horrorshow is off air for the summer; speak to you in the fall!

The psychic surgeon assists

• On 1 April 2024, Calamari Archive, Ink. published The psychic surgeon assists. You can get the book directly from Calamari, or from Asterism. So many thanks to Derek White (who also did wonderful illustrations and layout for this edition) and Garielle Lutz at Calamari—also to Joe Koch and Laura Ellen Joyce for spending time with the text!

Sleepingfish XX

• An excerpt from my short novel The psychic surgeon assists made it into Sleepingfish XX, alongside company I just can't believe (Sofia Samatar)! You can pick up a copy directly from Calamari Archive, Ink., or from Asterism Books.

Horrorshow

• Airs on Wednesdays at 1800 EST on 91.5 WOBC FM Oberlin, or online at wobc-fm.org. Sound effects, film soundtracks, library music, heavy metal atmospherics, novelty recordings, electronic props, thrilling chilling sounds, guts-being-mangled.mp3 . . .

horsepiece

• "Occult blood" was published by ergot.—it's a small Horse piece.

. . . marking "My death"

• "Object markers; or, My death, an irratiocination" was published by Calamari Archive, Ink. in Sleepingfish 2020+.

רְאֵם

• Ulrich Baer is running his Science Fiction Writing Workshop, beginning in May. It's perfect, and the book list is: Dhalgren.


• Rhinoceros—and William Gibson, as William Gibson—in Wild Palms (1993).


• In re: rhinoceros, Peter Grudzien's The unicorn (1974)—which Ulrich sent me years ago.

J Lo at Jajouka

• Shirley Collins—and hooden horses—in "Death and the lady", the video released for Lodestar (Domino, 2016).


• Jennifer Lopez riding across the desert to Deadvlei, while the Master Musicians play—the opening sequence of The cell (2000).


• Gabrielle Wittkop; Anthems in Eden (Harvest, 1969)—cf. Anthems in Eden (Castle Music, 2006); Boy soprano (Non-Standard, 1985); Derek Bailey playing with the radio on Domestic jungle (scatterArchive, 2022); Joyce Mansour's Cris; Peter Lorre in Arsenic and old lace (1944); the magazine Bourbon Penn.

Wastelands / Dead Futures

• Ulrich Baer runs the workshop The Poiesis of the Wastes this fall: enroll to read Delany's Stars in My Pocket [...] and Anna Kavan's Ice—and, for the sake of yr spec. this workshop is tentatively set for any time now, I think; Ulrich is an incredible teacher, facilitator, collaborator, mentor...!


• Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit, April is the Cruellest Month (Blank Forms, 2019): as says Eliot, "My Friend, Blood Shaking My Heart"—when this line makes my book, it's all Takayanagi.


• Transversals is reading for Issue #5 Dead Futures: this is the Deleuzian zine, and it's gorgeous always.


• The Cardigans, First Band on the Moon (Stockholm Mercury, 1996): entries in hauntology "Happy Meal II" and "Heartbreaker"—the latter with bizarre Black Sabbath quotations.

ask me about, anytime:

• Children's picturebook work for experimental writers.


• Vernacular and nontraditional approaches to five- and six-string banjo, guitar, etc.


• Disassembling toy metallophones.